Men’s basketball returns to NCAA tourney as No. 3 seed

Baylor men’s basketball matched its best-ever NCAA tournament seeding, returning to March Madness as the No. 3 seed in the South Region. The Bears will face Summit League tournament champion South Dakota State in the first round on Thursday at 6:27 pm CT in Albuquerque, N.M., televised on truTV (see full bracket here).

You might remember the last time head coach Scott Drew’s Bears were a No. 3 seed. That was 2010, when Baylor ran to the Elite Eight with Ekpe Udoh, LaceDarius Dunn and Tweety Carter. (That squad also had Anthony Jones in the starting lineup and Quincy Acy, A.J. Walton, Cory Jefferson and Fred Ellis coming off the bench.)